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Basketball

Gotta love Basketball BC’s “Coaches Clipboard.” I generally read the Steve Nash ball stuff – youth league & fundamentas. But tonight I noticed the Steve Nash interview on Charlie Rose, and an article on his workouts…
Definitely worth the time.

Back.

And I’ll try to stay here some.
I’m barely haunting my usual places (Brainstorms, Biorealis, edublogs) and spending almost all my online time in email (with feeds from infocult and the yahoo group “coachinghoops”) I thought it was time to come back here and let the world outside my home town know I still exist.
So I [...]

Summer Holidays!

Last week of school: kids are struggling through exams and we are trying to compress an entire years worth of work and learning into a single percentage and three sentences of comments. Of all the things technology has improved in my life, report card comments are not one of them.
Basketball is shaping up for next [...]

Zones

Well, the girls won the Zone tournament on Friday/Saturday. Which makes it official, we have the best 3J girls basketball team in Northwestern Alberta. I wish we had provincials… we’d win that too.
Couple of college coaches approached us after the final. They felt that anyone of our starters and most of our bench could play [...]

Accents

Something tells me this will be useful… but I am not sure where right now. It is a collection of people reading a paragraph in english: sorted by native language and birthplace, so you get to hear the accents.
Maybe it will come to me as soon as I stop thinking about how great the girls [...]

Playbook

Just spent some time playing with this software for animating basketball plays. Works well… pretty simple if somewhat time consuming to actually draw out the plays one frame at a time.
I suspect the girls will like it, being able to see (in email even) how the plays or drills work. And to be honest, having [...]

Basketball

I think I will have troubles refraining from talking basketball now and then. I help to coach the girls team at the school, and we spent the weekend in High Level at the Norther Bear Invitational.
Just wanted to thank all the folks involved for a wonderful tournament, and the opportunity to coach some great ball.
And [...]